The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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